Screen LibraryLeviathan : authoritative text, backgrounds, interpretations /
Presents an annotated edition of Thomas Hobbes's seventeenth-century work of political philosophy in which he addresses the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is a part of human nature; and includes background writings an...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1997] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
Presents an annotated edition of Thomas Hobbes's seventeenth-century work of political philosophy in which he addresses the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is a part of human nature; and includes background writings and critical essays. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 381 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-378) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780393967982 (paperback) : 0393967980 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | JC153 |
| CLC: | D033 |
| Call Number: | D033/H682-3 |
| Contents: |
The text of Leviathan -- Backgrounds. Hobbes's life ; Hobbes's self-defense ; Reactions to Hobbes -- Interpretations. Introduction to Leviathan / From Natural right and history / [Hobbes on political obligation] / [Hobbes on skepticism and moral conflict] / The failure of Hobbes's social contract argument / Theory and transformation : the politics of enlightenment / Hobbes and the irrationality of politics / Of making and unmaking / |